Senior Manager, Alumni Impact
Location: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad
Working at Teach For India
Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of 5000+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put 33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have 1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.
In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.
- Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
- Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
- Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
- Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
- Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.
Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.
We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We're committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.
What Teach For India Can Offer You
- The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
- A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee's Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
- A work environment in which employees holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
- Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.
- Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.
Position Summary
Reporting to: Director, Alumni Impact
Directly Managing: Manager, Programs
The Senior Manager, Alumni Impact will play a critical role in advancing Teach For India's movement for education equity by enabling Alumni to drive systems-level change across the country. They will lead complex initiatives, build high-trust team culture, manage significant budgets, and ensure measurable progress toward long-term social impact.
Responsibilities:
Strategy & Ecosystem change
- Lead the strategic direction and execution of the Alumni Impact vertical, including designing and implementing new phases of work
- Identify leverage points within the education ecosystem and design interventions that strengthen Alumni influence at scale
- Plan the year extensively to ensure that internal and external stakeholders have clarity on the direction of the work
- Lead the work with 120+ Alumni Multipliers and enable their leadership development through strategic initiatives
- Evolve appropriate data systems for the Alumni Impact team to measure progress and continually improve
Learning Experience Design & Operations
- Oversee the end-to-end design and implementation of Alumni programs and learning experiences, ensuring high-quality learner experience and strong outcomes
- Create repeatable, scalable program formats focused on peer learning, collaboration, and leadership development
- Design and embed rigorous monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) mechanisms to track progress, generate insights, and inform continuous improvement
- Ensure learning experiences consistently meet or exceed experience and impact benchmarks (e.g., NPS, engagement, learning outcomes)
People Leadership & Team Culture
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-level team (direct and indirect reports) across multiple geographies, enabling strong ownership, decision-making, and execution
- Build a culture of trust, accountability, learning, and collaboration within the team, especially in high-ambiguity environments
- Support team members professional growth through coaching, feedback, and clarity of roles and expectations
Cross-Functional Leadership & Resource Management
- Collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners to align efforts and amplify impact
- Own and manage a ₹50+ lakh annual budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources, financial discipline, and alignment with strategic priorities
- Liaise with other verticals in the organization (like City Ops, Technology, Strategy and Impact, Communication, Careers, and Recruitment) to aid cross-functional collaboration
Additional Responsibilities:
As a People Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include :
- Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
- Managing and coaching the team members to ambitious outcomes.
- Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
- Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.
As a Senior Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include:
- Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
- Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India's core Programs.
- Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply.
- Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building.
Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations:
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation or leadership
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in any field
- Strong grounding in innovation and venture design
- Demonstrated excellence in program and system design
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across seniority levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Data-informed decision-making orientation
- Strong project planning and project management skills
- Strong program execution, session design and facilitation skills
- Strong understanding of impact measurement and evaluation
Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Personal experience of starting, managing or being part of an early-stage social enterprise
- Experience in supporting or working with early-stage entrepreneurs, including an insight into what it takes to start a new organization e.g. fundraising, team-building, sales, legal
- Knowledge of education and entrepreneurship in the Indian context
- The ability to think in terms of systems and platforms
Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.
